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Single-Tissue and Cross-Tissue Heritability of Gene Expression Via Identity-by-Descent in Related or Unrelated Individuals

Family studies of individual tissues have shown that gene expression traits are genetically heritable. Here, we investigate cis and trans components of heritability both within and across tissues by applying variance-components methods to 722 Icelanders from family cohorts, using identity-by-descent...

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Autores principales: Price, Alkes L., Helgason, Agnar, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, McCarroll, Steven A., Kong, Augustine, Stefansson, Kari
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3044684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21383966
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001317